2006-1007: HOME SCHOOLERS IN AN ENGINEERING/EDUCATION K12OUTREACH PROGRAMLawrence Genalo, Iowa State University LAWRENCE J. GENALO is Professor and Assistant Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University. He received a Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics with Systems Engineering emphasis in 1977, served as Chair for Freshman Programs and DELOS Divisions, and runs the Toying With TechnologySM Program at Iowa State.Jamie Gilchrist, Iowa State University Jamie Gilchrist is a preservice teacher in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction's elementary education program. She is an undergraduate teaching and laboratory assistant for the Toying With
content for the first offering of MDE 1. To evaluate the background of thestudents and understand the context for the coursework that must bridge the science perspectiveestablished in the physics mechanics background of the students the text, lecture and examcontent have been evaluated in detail. The current offerings of the Purdue course Physics 152consist of a lecture and laboratory course that uses the Tipler and Mosca text.11 The coursecorresponds well to the Tipler and Mosca course in that a large number of examples areemployed that have a strong engineering flavor in terms of the examples employed and the Page 11.993.5nature of the
offered. The curriculum continues to contain mathematics through calculus II, acourse in Laplace transforms, physics 1 and 2 with laboratories, a course in technical writing, acourse in business practices, and a liberal arts university core curriculum. A new addition is acourse in data bases at the request of electrical power technical and general managers inelectrical power companies in the Houston area.An internet search of electrical technology programs indicated that most do not offer such an in-depth education in electrical power, but tend to offer a balance of about two to three courses eachin electrical power and control systems, in addition to the normal basic electronics and computercourses. Only a very few baccalaureate degree granting
area to cover. The main complaint heard from EET facultyregards the lack of text books written for the technologist who will support equipment. There aretwo main reasons for this shortage. First, there is a very small market to sell potential texts.Only a handful of schools offer this specialty and most publishers would like to sell largenumbers of books. Secondly, medical technology is rapidly evolving; it is difficult to keep a textbook up-to-date. As a result, without a text book as a guide, many potential instructors shy awayfrom teaching a class in this area, even when they have the necessary expertise.A second issue relates to hands on experiences for students on medical equipment. TraditionalEET programs are built around laboratory
Page 11.752.4at Goddard, though some other partners or contractors also include Boeing, Northrop Grummanas well as Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). However, after a successful launch, the concept maybe extended to the manufacturing of more satellites and the industrial partners may be contractedfor multiple production runs of the spacecraft, instead of the in-house manufacturing. Forexample, the industrial engineering concepts in dealing with mass production of aerospaceproducts will be useful for the future space constellation mission of flying tens or hundreds ofsimilar spacecraft. In addition, small satellite exploration is important, due to the interest in moreeconomical space missions, and the increasing demands for timely access
in the Social Sciences Department at the College. She is also PI or co-PI on several other NSF-funded projects.Amy Bieber, Queensborough Community College Co-PI Dr. Amy Bieber holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. degree from the Institute for Optics of the University of Rochester. She also held a post-doctoral fellowship at Sandia National Laboratory, working in photonics research and nanostructure and semiconductor physics. She developed the laser and general optics segments for TechASCEND. Author of two books for students, Dr. Bieber has published articles on several laser-related topics. She is currently coordinator of the
was used to capture images of various electrical meter displays for the purpose ofextracting the displayed readings. Both digital (LCD) and analog (dials) were used. The LCD ofa handheld digital voltmeter was used for the digital display tests. A typical residential Watt-hour meter was used for the analog display tests. The webcam was controlled by and the imageswere analyzed by LabVIEW VISION software.Hardware Overview Figure 1. RSR 926 Digital MultimeterFor this undergraduate research project, common, readily available meters were used. Figure 1shows the RSR 926 DMM that was used for the digital display work. This meter is regularlyused in the laboratories at Penn State Berks. The CL200 General Electric watt-hour
application came as a result of proposals tothe National Undersea Research Program at Hawaii Underseas Research Laboratory. Atthe time (2003), they were planning a series of dives on the underwater seamountVailulu’u off the coast of American Samoa. In support of that, the team proposed thedeployment of an AUV for testing of environmentally based navigation in thatenvironment. For that mission the specifications were basic:Scenario 1: Underwater volcanic exploration.Seamount depth: 500mCaldera Floor :1000m: Operational Range: 0-1000mCaldera Mouth: 2km:Vehicle speed 2kts:Range 5 kmOperational life on 1 batt charge 2 hoursMission ProfileMode 1: Make one pass over caldera, compass based, turn 180 degree, dive to next depthand return. Surface for battery
60second-semester STEM students at Benedict College. We conducted a mixed-methods study toexamine the impact of a learning community model (the Benedict College Scientific Village),fused with critical pedagogy and hands-on laboratory research, on the collegiate success andretention of minority students in the STEM disciplines (Pantiwati, 2013). By introducing thismodel to students early in their college careers, we anticipated that various psychosocial and socio-economical impediments to student learning, retention, and academic success would beminimized. We confirmed that the Scientific Village model has a significant impact on theachievement, retention, and self-efficacy of STEM students at a small, historically Black college.The model and
and other ATE organizations. Areas oftechnology enhancement will be identified, assessed for relevance and incorporated intoexisting or new courses. This process with faculty externships will provide an ongoingopportunity for the RCNGM faculty to stay current. NSF’s ATE program has already invested in the development and implementationof six online technology courses in photonics and telecommunications (NSF 0101654).The results of these piloted courses have demonstrated the need for a blended delivery ofonline courses, using on-site laboratories to augment online delivery of thereby. Inaddition, the following curriculum elements were identified as being critical to thedevelopment of a Next Generation Manufacturing focus within the COT
to see the addition of these experiments to clarify and show theapplication of the theory in these courses.As per the alumni letters, the described projects and their interpretation are very helpful to theworking graduate students, and they could apply some of the demonstrated ideas in theircompany. Some of the students joined electromagnetic compatibility laboratories with theknowledge reinforced by the experiments. The employer letters indicate that our alumni haveused the knowledge gained from these experiments in the industry to rectify many of theproblems in the design.Thanks to the introduction of the experiments in the class, the enrollment in the course doubledfrom the previous years since the students find the course more
, when students are learning water content soil laboratory tests, this is usually a verygood starting point of a one dimensional knowledge thread. The Atterberg limits, for exampleshrinkage limit (SL), liquid limit (LL) and plastic limit (PL) are essentially all fundamental watercontent which are just measured at different stages of their states. So is the optimum watercontent used in the standard proctor test or modified compaction laboratory test to achieve themaximum dry density. I believe that civil engineering student, and especially those who declaregeotechnical engineering as their profession, should be constantly reminded of how importantthe concept of water content is in their future professional life.Water content is defined as weight
actually spent on teaching them how to identify theircustomers." Students are not conducting experiments in the stereotypical, laboratory-situatedway, but instead through Customer Discovery: students are "testing [their] hypothesis" by talkingwith and gathering feedback from customers. Exploring user needs is the foundation of theentire Customer Discovery process, to determine the value proposition, or the "value" thatcustomer will derive from the product's use. As one interviewee said, "once you understand thevalue, then later you can transform that into your requirements, documentation to conductresearch, [you can] build product, whatever.”Interviewees agreed that Customer Discovery is also when students understand, define andreframe the problem
, thetypes of multimedia content and overview of implementing the online flipped classroomapproach. In Figure 2, the block labeled ‘Requirements and Considerations’ highlights andsummarizes are discussed elsewhere6,12. The next two blocks of Figure 2, labeled as‘Multimedia and Interactive Content’ and ‘Implementation of Online Flipped Classroom’, arediscussed next.The online delivery will use a flipped classroom approach as defined by the following three mainconcepts as depicted in Figure 2.The first concept is to develop engaging and interactive multimedia content. The initial phaseconsists of developing videos, weekly assessment activities to support frequent testing, assignedreadings/homework and weekly laboratory experiments.To gain experience
Paper ID #18235Project-Based Learning Curriculum for the Junior Year Based on Building aLaser Tag SystemProf. Brad L. Hutchings, Brigham Young University Brad L. Hutchings received the PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 1992. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University. In 1993, Dr. Hutchings established the Laboratory for Reconfigurable Logic at BYU and currently serves as its head. His research interests are custom computing, embedded systems, FPGA architectures, CAD, and VLSI. He has published numerous papers on
increased lecture time are (e) reduced team forming due to less project work time, (f)reduced motivation/enthusiasm for the designette, (g) reduced familiarity with the laboratory andprototyping techniques, and (h) more time spent outside of class, possibly impacting othercourses.Advantages and disadvantages of the increased depth of design content instruction wereobserved from two main data sources. First, all students and faculty advisors were invited toprovide feedback on the designette immediately following its completion by way of a feedbackform. The form included 26 subjective questions from which respondents could indicateagreement through a Likert seven position response scale. Section 4.1 lists the 23 questionsrelevant to this research and
Paper ID #20101Designing Electric Guitars to Teach Mechatronics and Advanced Manufac-turing TechniquesDr. Gavin Garner, University of Virginia Gavin Garner holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Colby College and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia. His primary area of expertise lies in the burgeoning field of Mechatronics (aka robotics). Over the past decade, he has built UVA’s Mechatronics program from scratch, developing over 50 hours of unique laboratory experiments as well as dozens of open-ended design projects. Through this experience, he has gained
focus on boards featuring products fromthese two vendors. While Actel and Lattice are alternate options, there are more resourcesavailable for Xilinx and Intel PSG for faculty members. Some key aspects of PLD development board selection covered in this paper include thefollowing. • Contribution to student learning outcomes – Does the board contain all the components needed to complete the laboratory assignments? • PLD vendor – Does one want to use Xilinx with ISE/Vivado, or Intel PSG with Quartus? • Existing materials available – Are there existing lesson plans or laboratory assignments available? • Cost – How cost sensitive? Is this something purchased by the department or students? • Time – How much time is traded
showed that the students performbetter on tests if they are told why they are not allowed to use computers in the classroom.The lack of difference found between the overall course grades was attributed to the factthat the overall course grade included both the course grades (within the study) and othergrades (outside the study). The students final course grade included points for how theyperformed on tests, as well as, points for participation and student achievement in labs.In future studies, the data could be parsed to analyze performance on all the testseliminating non-academic and laboratory factors that could affect overall course grade.Reasons for the difference in academic success in final exam test scores between the twogroups could boil
, dueto limitations in terms of lab capacity and an increase in number of students taking the course, itis difficult to provide each student, or even groups of students, with an individual trainer. PortablePLC trainers, on the other hand, do not require a large lab space.Historically, out-of-date, rack-mounted PLC equipment was used in the Department to supportthis class. While this provided the students with a procedural introduction to PLCs, it did not allowfor conceptual understanding or real world experience with the equipment. The ET Programrecently developed an updated set of PLC units utilizing the B&R controller that allowed an openplatform for the laboratory components of the class while fostering a conceptual understanding ofthe
, India. She is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She is serving as a research assistant under an NSF-funded DR K-12 re- search project to promote integration of robotics in middle school science and math education. For her doctoral research, she conducts mechatronics and robotics research in the Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory at NYU.Dr. Vikram Kapila, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a
for the hands on activities was a lot of work for the professor, but in futureofferings a student could be hired. Other ways to streamline the process will beinvestigated. For example, Ingredion [http://www.ingredion.com/] generously donatedsamples of several modified starches that will gelatinize without heating. This couldsimplify the preparation process. One topic offered in the first module – Creating FizzyFruit as a way to demonstrate diffusion – was expensive and only slightly successful andso was not offered in the second module. Scale up of the course to offer to hundreds ofstudents would be challenging without dividing them into smaller laboratory sections.ConclusionsThe course was offered twice in the fall semester to approximately
ASEE Annual Conference, Paper ID #13545. 2. Sohail Anwar, Todd Batzel, and Ed Sell, “Integration of Project Based Learning into A Freshman Engineering Design Course”, Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference, Session 23625. 3. Sven K. Esche, and Hamid A. Hadim, “Introduction of Project-based Learning into Mechanical Engineering Courses”. Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Session 2366. 4. Eric Constans, Jennifer Kadlowec, “Using a Project-Based Learning Approach to Teach Mechanical Design to First-Year Engineering Students”, Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference, AC 2011-511. 5. Narendra Sharma , “Project-Based Laboratory Experiences in Mechanical Engineering”, Systemics
system; (5) generation of spiral bone fractures in lowerlimb chicken bones; (6) measurement of basketball dribbling characteristics with a smartbasketball (InfoMotion Sports Technology; Dublin, OH); and (7) investigating human walkingpatterns using a computer simulation of gait (BioMotion Laboratory, Queens University;Kingston, Ontario, Canada). In activity #1, each participant was asked to jump as high as possibleover a series of three trials and their height was displayed with others who participated that day.In activity #2, vertical ground reaction force was measured and displayed as each participantattempted novel walking patterns to manipulate the force. In activity #3, electrical activity inmuscle was measured and displayed as each
next industrial revolution. Designengineers need a physical prototype to validate form, fit and function, and to get approval ondesign changes prior to mass manufacturing. Also, 3D printing can help bring material productsto market faster. Additive manufacturing/3D printing is being applied in a diverse range ofindustries. Applications are found in aerospace, automotive, medical, electronics, and defense.The Air Force research laboratory has used 3D printing to fabricate the GRIN lens with anoperational frequency of 12 GHz7. Also, 3D printing is used to fabricate an aluminum rocketengine injector to improve performance, reliability, and the affordability of the liquid propellantrocket engine8. The International Space Station’s 3D printer has
information technology tools. Without a laboratory section for the course, the designresults are verified using simulations, for example using MATLAB, MATHCAD or otheravailable programs. It is very important that students first go through problems usingpaper/pencil, back of envelope calculations, with use of calculator before they attemptsimulations, obtaining graphical results from available computing information technology tools.4. CONCLUSIONS. In this paper we have shown how computer information technology (CIT)are used at the right time, right place in an example science and engineering course. Students areencouraged to use paper and pencil, calculator to solve a given problem and do simplecalculation (“back of envelope”) before using software
the supervision of Professor Neal Cason. In 1999 Mr. Tatar presented a paper on Groups and Representation Theory and was awarded a MS degree in Applied Mathematics. A year later, he completed a dissertation on Hadron Spectroscopy of Light Mesons and earned a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics. Dr. Tatar joined the faculty of Idaho State University in August 2001, where he remains until now. Dr. Tatar’s scientific interests are in experimental and phenomenological studies of strong and weak interactions and the possible extensions of the Standard Model. He was a member of the team that discovered the first mesons with exotic quantum numbers, after analyzing a large data set from Brookhaven National Laboratory. His
from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India, and M.Tech degree in Mechatronics Engineering from NITK, Surathkal, India. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY. She is serving as a research assistant under an NSF-funded DR K-12 project.Dr. Vikram Kapila, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a DR K-12 research project, and an ITEST re- search project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting
considers papers that relate to industrialtechnique, rather than analysis, and engineering education papers that focus on content, ratherthan methodology [2]. It is suggested too that the following subjects meet the aforementionedcriteria: accreditation, active learning, applied research, assessment, capstone projects, classroomactivities, curriculum design, distance learning, industry partners, innovative pedagogy,laboratories, non-technical skills, and other topics related to engineering technology practice andeducation.Using data contained in the Scopus database (Elsevier B.V.) and analyzed by SCImago (akaScimago), selected metrics were examined that characterize the Journal of EngineeringTechnology. A research group from the Consejo Superior de
, Columbus, OH, USA, June 24-28, 2017, [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/ 27720,[Accessed March 12, 2019].[9] I. Fidan, A. Elliott, M. Cossette, T. Singer, E. Tackett, “The Development andImplementation of Instruction and Remote Access Components of Additive Manufacturing,” In:Auer M., Azad A., Edwards A., de Jong T. (eds) Cyber-Physical Laboratories in Engineeringand Science Education. Springer, Cham, 2018.[10] J. Fraley, A. Imeri, I. Fidan, and M. Chandramouli, “A Comparative Study on AffordablePhotogrammetry Tools,” Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE 2018, SaltLake City, UT, USA, June 23-27, 2018, [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/29663,[Accessed March 12, 2019].[11] I. Fidan, G. Chitiyo, T. Singer, and J